By Andrea Holata

BRIGHTON — For Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School students, the first nine weeks went by fast, but their efforts didn’t go unnoticed. Kindergarten through eighth-grade students were recognized for their academic efforts on Oct. 30 at the PECS cafeteria.

To conclude the first quarter of the academic school year, many PECS students were honored for earning at least a 3.0-3.4 GPA (bronze award), a 3.5-3.9 (silver award) and some were given the prestigious gold award for having straight A’s (4.0).
Faculty, students, parents and family proudly joined the students in the cafeteria for the awards ceremony.

To accommodate the growing number of students, each grade level held separate awards throughout the day.

Students received awards for citizenship, effort, improvement, good grades and physical education, as well as for participating in the 100’s book club. They were also honored for their efforts in their culture classes, receiving awards for arts and crafts and language.